Optometry profession

2.
Introduction
• Optometry is a health care profession that is
autonomous, educated and regulated
(licensed/Registered)
• Optometrists are the primary healthcare
practitioners of eye and visual system who
provide comprehensive eye and vision care that
includes refraction and dispensing, diagnosis and
management of eye diseases and rehabilitation of
conditions of the visual system.

3.
Who are optometrists
• Graduates from +2 science and has completed
the Bachelor of Optometry and vision Science
degree

11.
Professional Career
• Successful independent practitioner (Global
data)
• Opportunity to be self employed either as a
partner or a sole practitioner
• Work at health care institutions
• A responsible position in the community as a
health professional

12.
Professional career
• Vision research, teaching and administration
for various professional organizations
• Work with ophthalmologists contributing in
major part of ophthalmic practice
• Work as optometrists in many overseas
countries
• Work in many ophthalmic products industry,
social welfare organizations

14.
Primary eye care services
• Services that are required by many people most
of the time to meet their non-specialized health
problems
• Function as the primary point of entry into the
system
• Role
– A comprehensive range of diagnostics, therapeutics
and preventive services
– Health promotion and maintenance activities
– Health campaigns

15.
Primary eye care services
• Referral
– Within vertical dimension from the primary level
to the secondary and tertiary levels
• Aim
– Provision of care to the right patient at the right
time in the right places and for the right reason

23.
Nepalese Association of Optometrists
• Optometrists formed an association in 2003
named as “Nepalese Association of Optometrists
(NAO)”
• NAO is involved in school screening, eye check
ups, health campaigns in community
• Current Partners are Optometry Giving Sight, BP
eye Foundation, Volunteer organization for
services of humanity
• NAO is member of World council of Optometry
(WCO), Asia Pacific Council of Optometry (APCO)

24.
Program Supported to Nepalese
Optometrists by International agencies
• The Sight Conservation of Children from
Marginalised Communities of Nepal
– Subodh Gyawali, OD, MPH, for OGS
• Eye teaming and co-ordination among school
children of Kathmandu
– Subodh Gyawali, OD, MPH for OGS
• Ocular morbidity among street children of
Kathmandu Valley
– GauriSh Shrestha, M.Optom, FIACLE for WCO